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Whilst we have a heatwave in England, Europe and MANY other places...
- I have the Window (not Windows) open. Not too unpleasant through the night time cooling
- I occasionally improve and update my minimalist website
- Have moved the ioniser + fan above the skylight to suck and push up heated air
- Chased a lost red admiral to exit by the skylight
- Think I may have a cup of tea (the universal panacea)
Be Kewl. Be Buddhist. Bee Happy.
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lobster
Re: Sense and sillyability
You may not have dominance over thousands of other people.
But you have absolute dominance over yourself.
Only you can choose empathy, honesty, courtesy, morality.
You and you alone can choose your path, to overcome or to succumb.
Only you can choose to take the next step along your path,
or to stop, to turn around and never see what treasures abound ahead.
You are the voyager and you determine your voyage.
But you need not travel alone.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: The AI tsunami
@Lionduck said:
My concern is not AI. My concern is how, why where and for or against whom it will be used. AI is just another tool.
Who determines how, why, and where it us used is the question that it imperative (that) we answer correctly.
That much is obvious, it will be used in the pursuit of profit. In the first instance it will be used to replace knowledge workers, so that any job that can be done by a brainy human behind a computer can, in the future, be done by an AI agent in the cloud for the cost of a few pennies, instead of thousands of dollars of salary. In the second instance it will be used to enable autonomous robots which will run on an ‘AI operating system’ which will take over many menial tasks in people’s homes, effectively giving people embodied AI servants for the price of a small car.
The people controlling this will be the investment firms, people like BlackRock who are smart and capable of investing billions in these kinds of projects in pursuit of greater convenience for people with the money to pay for it. There is no other significant motivating factor in today’s world, everything has been made subservient to profit.
Jeroen
Re: The AI tsunami
My concern is not AI. My concern is how, why where and for or against whom it will be used. AI is just another tool.
Who determines how, why, and where it us used is the question that it imperative (that) we answer correctly.
Lionduck
Re: The idea one has of oneself
@person said:
Should the Dutch government tax US citizens to help pay for healthcare in India?
Some problems seem to be global. For example Greece a few years ago introduced a ‘golden visa’ policy which meant that if you invested 250.000 euros in property you would get a 5-year visa, and after 7 years it would convert to citizenship. So from all over the world people invested in Greek property, in order to become EU citizens. This led to rising property prices, many AirBnB rentals, local people being priced out of their homes, and so on.
But who exactly invested? A lot of digital nomads did this, people who became rich off the internet and travel the world without a fixed abode. And businesses like AirBnB allow you to earn in a few months over the summer what would otherwise be a years rental.
Jeroen
Re: Letting go of games
I've been working on a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle and the aesthetics of the colors are pleasing as well as finding a piece. I think it must affect the brain and the neurotransmitter systems
Jeffrey
Re: The AI tsunami
@lobster said:
This time the new tech are agents in and of themselves
They are not.
[...] They are a very costly but profitable scam.
You may be swayed. People are. Every time. That is the easy part. ;-)
Just wanted to weigh in that @lobster has the right of it, here. The current crop of AI are "large language models" which are basically very sophisticated autocomplete devoid of any ability to reason (they purposefully label them "reasoning models" to obscure this fact), and they're already hit the point of diminishing returns on further investment & "training" data.
I have a very long list of papers and bookmarks that show the lie of it. But the con must go on a bit longer; too much money is at stake to admit it's rotten yet.
Linc
Re: Sense and sillyability
imo, tame and wild behaivior is one.
in life it is not mutualy exclusive to be one way or the other. for me it is included in our headspace of being. back to the song good intention, i dont know what i did last night speaks the mind set ,be free and own up to that experience. taking a chance at life. and the luck it turn out all right if you were partying with friends. go crazy, the song speaks the mode just be and do with what ever the outer condition space present itself. this helps the brain live and learn what your headspace can manage. if your freespirited this overindulget to our sense media gives you experience to handle future events of partying. the head space will learn your limit in partying. for example had a weed party in my teens. i just went with it. smoked and got high. the next time, i smoke less. my limit in the weed party, i want a buzz not overly high out. so for me i can let my wild side out but as i got older it tame behavior to my liking.
conversly, i perefer tame partying with life. my sense of party is see whats happening in my community. look a street proformer. check it out. maybe go shoping and buy something with cash in hand party on. so love can move mtn suite me more than lets go crazy. in my dao zen its a ll about balance the hallmark to moderation, the balance wild-tame behavior, balance danial son as you bonzai life:
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its zen as we finess our bonzai life --balancing emotional and reasoning intelligence in living our life